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ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. 



It blooms during April, May, and June, and lasts about two weeks in perfection. 

 The plant requires to be grown in a pot, and should be elevated 3 inches above 

 the rim, in order to show off the flowers, which are drooping, to the greatest 

 advantage. E. Warner, Esq., of Chelmsford, exhibited a fine specimen of this 



TETCHOPILIA CBISPA. 



plant, with upwards of a hundred flowers, at the St. Petersburg Internationa 

 Exhibition in 1869. This plant has the peculiarity of producing two crops of 

 flowers from the same pseiadobulbs every year ; as soon as one lot goes off the 

 other appears. — Central America. 



Fig. — Batem. Second Cent. Orck. PL, t. 115 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4857 (coccinea); Flore 

 dcs Sevres, t. 1490 (coccinea). 



T. CRISPA MARGINATA, R. Warner. — A decided acquisition to a very 

 pretty genus. It is a finer plant than T. crispa, and will prove extremely 

 useful for exhibition purposes, as it flowers during June and July. It resembles 

 T. ma/rginata in its growth, but has shorter and more ovate compressed pseudo- 

 bulbs ; the leaves are broadly lanceolate, recurved at the apex, dark green ; and 

 the peduncles, which are produced from the base of the bulbs each bear two 

 or three blossoms, which are large and very showy ; the sepals and petals are 

 linear lanceolate, crispy at the margin, of a pale purplish red, white at the 

 edges ; and the lip is white externally, funnel-shaped, the two roimded lateral 

 lobes meeting over the throat, and the dilated central lobe deeply cleft at the 

 apex, dull crimson, with the throat of a darker and richer crimson, the limb 

 narrowly edged with white. This was first flowered in Mr. Warner's collection, 

 and is, without doubt, the finest of all the Trichopilias. — Central America. 



Fig. — Warner, Scl. Orch. PI., i. t. 5 ; Piiydt, Los Orcli., t. 43 ; Flore dcs Serves, 

 tt. 1925-6. 



